A Material Mystery (Choice & Renunciation) w/ Gyokei Yokoyama

Angel City Zen Center - Beginners Only Podcast by Angel City Zen Center

Apr 17, 202641:10Technology

In a starkly honest and personal talk, Gyokei reflects on renunciation and picking & choosing through his experience growing up as a rural temple kid and living as a modern professional monk among sincere Western lay pra...

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